Category Archives: Education

The survivors huddled around the fire, times had not been easy since The Incident. The group had been on the road for two years already and were getting tired of their endless struggle; they had heard the rumour that up north the city of Graduation was a full of food, jobs and warmth. Many felt… Read More »

There is a bot on Reddit that crawls through comments and looks for haiku in the text, I like the bot because everything has more of an emotional impact when it’s written as a haiku, even Reddit comments. Inspired by this I had a look online and it turns out there are a few python… Read More »

Some blog posts I find really difficult and take me a really long time write. This particular one has been very hard; I’ve had this very post in different forms in an instance of OpenOffice open on my desktop for the best part of a week. The gist of this is about two jobs currently… Read More »

I’m sorry there are no gifs, I understand if you leave now but it will hurt my ‘time on page’ ratings. Please stay a while and pretend to be interested. Writing what I truly think about a subject on a blog is a difficult process. The first hurdle is the title of the post, which… Read More »

Way back in February the EU commission raised concerns over business models in the mobile phone ‘app industry’. There were 4 major points of concern, these are taken directly from the EC press release : • Games advertised as “free” should not mislead consumers about the true costs involved; • Games should not contain direct… Read More »

You know those people who establish dynasties so powerful that their names echo through the centuries? I am one of them. – El Vice Chancellor Sim University (U.S name: Theme University) is a series of hit real-time strategy simulation games created and developed by a one man indie outfit. The game play sits at… Read More »

The Learning Locker requirements page recommends a LAMP style stack to install on, I use Mac OS X, which is close enough and because I want to keep my Apache, MySQL and PHP stuff self contained I use the free version of MAMP which is great for the most part but requires a little bit… Read More »

Sex education at my high school school was limited to a single day. The boys would go in to a classroom with their P.E teacher equipped with a condom and a banana, the girls would get a visit from a lady from Procter & Gamble equipped with bags of free sanitary products. By the end… Read More »

Welsh writer Dylan Thomas, who was very fond of a drink, once quipped that ‘an alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do.’ When I first came across the quote by Dylan Thomas I liked it because in my mind I was changing it to something akin to ‘a Learning… Read More »

As I was coming up to my final exam of my masters my tutor said something that really hit me hard. On the subject of us all getting jobs he said something along the lines of: Most students find being in a job hard, not because the job itself is hard but because in school,… Read More »